Best Friends = Best Episode.
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fairyqueen144 — 9 years ago(May 08, 2016 07:31 PM)
I agree with a lot of what you said.
Another thing is that I often don't like Hollywood's depiction of lesbianism. It mostly seems like it's catering to straight males and is all about the exploitation of two hot chicks together. This episode subverted that and instead told a very beautiful and romantic love story. I commend Cold Case for that (and for its generally excellent and groundbreaking portrayal of homosexuality). -
gagemichaeljohn — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 12:08 AM)
I completely agree with your Hollywood comments. Its like the makers of these things just sit there and say "you know what guys always want to see two women together put that in". But for me like you say that is just explotation. What we need are more episodes/films like this that depict it for what it is two people falling in love. This episode showed that to perfection. Rose and Billy where just two girls from different back grounds but when they met they fell in love. That is what love is, it can happen anywhere.
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fairyqueen144 — 9 years ago(May 15, 2016 08:45 PM)
"I don't remember the name of the episode, but the one with the two cops who fell in love in the 50s or 60s was so beautiful and heart breaking."
Forever Blue. I love that episode too.
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dwtslover — 9 years ago(June 10, 2016 01:10 AM)
This is actually my favorite episode too.. Best Friends. It is actually making me cry thinking about it right now. When Lily said at the end about it being "the wrong time"..that line gets me every time I see this episode. 40 years old and living the life my family wanted for me. Same sex relationships in my family would have gotten me ostracized. Like Rose I went on to have a family and get married, but inside my true love could never be with a man. It would always be "the wrong time" with my family and a small town. So I suck it up and sacrifice being able to find love with a female to satisfy the family I grew up with and the one I have now. Even though my kids are almost adults, I still have to live this life out like Rose did. It was so sweet when they walked away together at the end. I too, appreciated that they made it a love story. Not just two hot women grinding on each other, people can see that anytime.
I also love the episode about Daniela. The fact that he loved her even after finding out Daniela identified with and lived as a woman, was bittersweet. If only he had gotten their several moments sooner, but then there wouldn't have been a show.
The thing with Cold Case is that it spans several decades, so I can identify with some of them or peek into the generations before me. -
Xeliou66 — 9 years ago(August 23, 2016 05:48 PM)
The LGBT episodes were always the best of Cold Case IMO. Such a great depiction of what these groups faced in the past, all of them were great : A Time to Hate, Forever Blue, Best Friends, Daniela, It's Raining Men, I might be forgetting one or 2 others. Those along with the episodes dealing with gender and race themes were the highlights of CC, any episode showing the discrimination of the past and how the "good old days" weren't good for people who weren't white heterosexual Christian males, those were the best episodes